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Re:Depressing and faintly terrifying days for the C standard... by ythn on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:49PM (#17191122)
> and document the behavior it will follow.

So it's unspecified in terms of the standard, but specified by the implementation

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Re:Depressing and faintly terrifying days for the C standard... by jexah on Thursday May 31, 2018 @06:58PM (#17201078)
Right! Basically it's up to the compiler programmer to pick a path and follow it... assuming you're talking about implementation-defined.
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